Anikoobijiganag: Thunder Bay Beading Symposium gained the Ontario Galleries’ public program award.
THUNDER BAY — Everybody on the Thunder Bay Artwork Gallery is on cloud 9 after incomes a serious honour.
They had been the recipient of the Ontario Galleries’ public program award for the Anikoobijiganag: Thunder Bay Beading Symposium that ran on the gallery in February.
The award was introduced in Toronto on Dec. 3.
“We all cheered when we learned that we won,” mentioned Bob Gravelle, who’s a advertising communications coordinator on the Artwork Gallery.
“It’s so cool to have the ability to share this award with the Anemki Artwork Collective, as properly with everybody who helped us to place this on.
“We were grateful and thrilled to receive this award and the vibe around our whole office has been pretty electric.”
Anikoobijiganag was the primary beading symposium of its sort on the Artwork Gallery. It celebrated the significance of beading practices and introduced collectively the beading neighborhood from everywhere in the area.
“This was really born out of our love of bringing people together and coincided with the Radical Stitch exhibition, which was curated by the Mackenzie Art Gallery,” Gravelle mentioned.
“We really wanted to bring together the incredible beading community from around Northern Ontario and the Northwestern Ontario artist community that we serve. We also wanted to bridge that between Indigenous knowledge, fine art and high fashion.”
The three-day occasion – which was additionally supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Authorities of Ontario – featured workshops, public occasions and talks that had been led by beaders, artists and crafters from throughout the area.
Anemki Artwork Collective co-founder Jean Marshall mentioned in a ready assertion that they had been grateful to obtain the award together with the Thunder Bay Artwork Gallery.
“Aanikoobijiganag was an amazing gathering and it took a community to make it happen,” Marshall added. “Exploring the materiality of beads led to empowering discussions and conversations. This acknowledgement is far appreciated as we work onerous to create significant relations in our neighborhood.“
Aanikoobijiganag will likely be returning to the Artwork Gallery in October 2025.
“A lot of the feedback that we got back in February was from people wishing that it was bigger,” Gravelle mentioned.
“We’re pretty confident that we can execute next year’s event in an even grander manner with all of the lessons that we learned earlier this year.”
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